This is a copy of the June 28, 1919 issue of the Erie Daily Times, which was photographed in the Erie Times-News photography studio on April 5.SAMI RAPP/ERIE TIMES-NEWS

TREATY OF PEACE NOW A FACT: After six months of negotiations, the Allied powers reached a peace settlement with Germany. On June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, "an event of tremendous import," declared the Erie Daily Times. The treaty enacted a number of penalties on Germany, including monetary reparations, military restrictions and territorial changes, and, for the time being, left folks around the world optimistic for an enduring peace.

Erie continued to celebrate as soldiers returned home from war. The boys from Erie's Company G arrived at Union Station on May 7, 1919. The Erie Daily Times declared that the whole town came out and "banked the line of march, hung from building windows and decorated every vantage point in appreciation of the work their returned heroes had done in the greatest of all struggles."

ALSO IN 1919: Rough waters led to a break in Presque Isle, nearly severing the land connecting the peninsula to the mainland. With Erie's landlocked harbor in danger, crews determined immediate and extensive repairs were necessary. Said Lt. Commander William Morrison, of the harbor commission, "I know if I owned the peninsula I would sell it quick."